When does dirt ship on pallets? In little plastic bags?

Dirt is delivered with a dump truck. Though, I suppose if you live in a suburb or urban hellhole this is not true.

I'll take a tax-cut and spend Republican if it means more surplus office furniture in the District of Columbia. Really, we need to auction a LOT of surplus office furniture there. Think of the impact on the carbon footprint if there are 70% fewer bureaucrats commuting there every day.

You're buying into the whole 'left/right spectrum' schism.

It's always more complicated than that, though if you're political enough you buy into one scheme or another.

Somebody shot Kennedy, so he certainly qualifies.

Kennedy was shot by a left-wing nut. Somebody who had renounced his citizenship and gone to live in the Soviet Union, and who didn't like it there and came back to the US.

A nut to almost the degree of a Spartacist or Trotskyite.

Some politicians (i.e. the Clintons) are steamier sacks of shit than the usual, though.

It's going to be a 'fun' 8 years if retread (either retread, actually) manages to get elected.

Global Warming is a man?

(It's more of a Mann, actually.)

MSIE is still preinstalled. It's not considered their competitive browser by Microsoft. It's there more as a utility. Microsoft will 'compete' with third party browsers on a more level playing field with this new browser.

In fact Microsoft has done nearly everything possible now to level the plaing field browser-wise. You have to hate Microsoft in a pathological way to not let up on some of the old bullshit hate-billyware thing. In continuing to sputter and fury the more infected and irrational cranks will identify themselves to us.

The general fury will die down eventually until it's like it already is with BSOD references, which are only made now by angry trolls who haven't touched a Microsoft product in over a decade.

Only to each small business. Larger firms might deploy in that size increment, though.

Hell, why have cars anything other than black, which should suffice for anybody?

Ahem. I drive a stripped-model black Ford Ranger. It's about as equivalent a Ford to the Model T as was made in 2006.

Dusenbergs are expensive now, too. So are Pierce Arrows.

Even though you can get a used Dodge Neon for a lot less.

For people who want to build a real hardware silicon PDP-8 computer, there exists an LSI version of it, the Harris/Intersil 6100 processor. It's a standard 40-pin package integrated circuit.

It's a static CMOS processor that can be clocked down to zero hertz if you like (the registers don't need 'refreshing' so it can be clocked as slow as you like) and it's a 12 bit processor and implements the PDP-8 Instruction set.

They haven't been made for years but they exist in NOS (new old stock) quantities and can be purchased at times.

It's certainly more interesting to have a real hardware implementation of a PDP-8 and the 'cheap' way is with a 6100 processor.

Now we just need to get all the pompous asshats with Beemers fired. There really is a 1:1 correlation.

The Chinese love Buicks. It's a weird cultural thing. And it has it's roots in the quirky fact that when the Communist Party took power, they commandeered the Emperor's car, which was a Buick, and it became Zhou Enlai's car, which was a big deal.

The whole reason GM didn't kill Buick was because of how strong a brand it was in China. Pity, too, because only prigs drive a Buick in the US, it's a long tradition. The only consolation is that they at least killed Pontiac.

However, when people refuse to pay the license fee and tell the BBS to fuck off, it doesn't work out so well.

Think about how it would be if Microsoft charged a 'license fee' to anybody who had a computer in their home. They can't go that far now, (though some claim they do) but think about what it would be like if law enforcement could be called out if you didn't pay your fee to Microsoft for each CPU in your house.

It would also have worked out better if he was a winning football coach.